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1908 he was president of the Quincy,

and Kansas City

railroad.

He

Omaha

died in 1908 in

Quincy, 111. Bulkley, Peter, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1583, in England. He was a congregational clergyman of Concord, Mass. He was the author of The Gospel Covenant. He died March 9, 1659, in Concord, Mass. Bull, Charles Livingston, illustrator, artist, was born in the state of New York.

He

an illustrator of magazine articles of City. He is also an animal painter and painter of mural decorations. He is the illustrator of Kindred of the Wild; Earth's i-inigmas; and The Watchers of the Trails. Bull, Charles Stedman, oculist, author, was is

New York

born in 1846 in New York City. Since 1899 he has been professor of ophthalmology in Cornell university. He is the author of Influenza of the Fifth Nerve in Iritis and Choroditis; and other medical Monographs. Bull, Ephraim Wales, horticulturist, was born March 4, 1806, in Boston, Mass. He settled in Concord, Mass.; and held various offices in the state horticultural society. He

bred and disseminated the Concord Grape. died Sept. 26, 1895, in Concord, Mass. Bull, Henry, colonial governor, was born in 1609 in South Wales. With a party of seventeen he purchased land and settled in Newport about 1638. In 1685-86 and 1689-90 he was colonial governor of Rhode Island. He died in 1693 in Rhode Island. Bull, Henry, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Nov. 33, 1687. In 1721 he was elected attorney-general; and in 1738-29 was speaker of the Rhode Island house of representatives. In 1738 he was a member of a committee to revise the laws of the colony; and in 1749 became chief justice of the court of common pleas. He died Dee. 34, 1771, in

He

Newport,

R.I. Bull, John, congressman. In 1784-87

he was

a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress. He died in South Carolina. Bull, John, congressman. He lived in Howard county, Mo.; and in 1833-35 he was a representative from Missouri to the twentythird congress. He died in 1863. in Glasgow.

Mo. Bull, John, physician, manufacturer, was born in 1813 in Shelby county, Ky. He was

doubtless the most successful compounder of are known as patent medicines in all America. Although connected with the proprietary medicine business for many years, his final fortune was gathered during the last ten years of his life, his income at that time being greater than that of any other man in Kentucky. He died April 36, 1875, in

what

Louisville, Ky. Bull, Melville, state senator, congressman, was born in 1854, in Newport, R.I. He was a member of the Rhode Island state legislature in 1883-85; wa^s a senator in 1885-93;

1893-94. He was delegate to the republican national convention in 1888. He took an active part in establishing the naval reserve militia of the

and lieutenant-governor

in

1895-1903 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the fifty-fourth, fiftyfifth, fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses, as a republican. Bull, Richard Harrison, educator, mathestate. In

matician, banker, was born Sept. 2.8, 1817, in City. In 1852-85 he was professor of civil engineering and dean of the school of civil engineering. For many years he was president of the New York savings bank. He died Feb. 1, 1892, in New York City. Bull, Mrs. Sara Chapman, litterateur, author, was born in 1850 in Oxford, N.Y. In 1870 she married the late Ole Bull, the famous violinist. She is the author of Ole Bull, a Memoir.

New York

Bull,

Stephen,

was born March

manufacturer,

14, 1823, in

capitalist,

Cayuga county,

N.Y. Prior to 1898 he was president of a threshing machine company of Racine, Wis. He is now president of the Milwaukee harvesting company ; and president of the manufacturers' national bank. Bull, William, lieutenant-governor of South Carolina, was born in 1710. He was a son of William Bull, who had also been lieutenantgovernor of South Carolina, and who died in 1755 at the age of seventy-two. He was a

member of the colonial council of South Carolina in 1751; was speaker of the house of delegates in 1763 and was appointed lieutenant-governor of that colony in 1764, which he filled for many years. He died July 4, 1791, in London, England.

Bull,

geon,

William Tillinghast,

was born May

physician-, sur18, 1849, in Newport, R.

I. In 1877-88 he made the Chambers street hospital of New York City famous with his successful operations on gunshot wounds of the abdomen. He is a surgeon of several New York City hospitals; and won an appointment as professor of surgery in the college of physicians. Bulla, Robert Nelson, legislator, lawyer,' was born Sept. 8, 1852, in Richmond, Ind. Since 1883 he has practiced law in Los Angeles, Cal. In 1893-97 he was a member of the California state assembly; and in 1897 was elected to the state senate.

Bullard, Asa, clergyman, author, was born March 26, 1804, in Northbridge, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts; and prominent in Sunday school work. His principal writings are Sunnybank Stories; Shady Dell Stories; Fifty Years with the Sabbath School and Incidents in a Busy Life, an autobiography. He died in

1888 in Massachusetts. Bullard, Erastus Franklin, educator, college president, was born May 1, 1844, in Jay, N.Y. He graduated from the university of Vermont in 1 864. He has been school commissioner of Essex county, N.Y. principal and superintendent of Keeseville schools of

New

York; and principal of Royalton academy of Vermont. For many years he was president of the of Jacksonville,

academy II!.;

for

young women

and also superinten-